Quantitative relations in the retinal ganglion cell layer of the rat: Neurons, glia and capillaries before and after optic nerve section

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 315-323

  Gellrich, Marcus Matthias ^a   Gellrich, Nils Claudius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

EID: 0029963292     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00220707     Document Type: Article

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